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DRAFT BRIEFING NOTES © 18 February 1963
‘FUNDING

I. Cuban financing of subversive operations in Latin

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Our evidence shows that it is generally effected |

by couriers carrying cash.

A Venezuelan politician, Fabricio Ojeda, re-
turned from Cuba in March of 1962, and was seen

by several witnesses to have large quantities

. of US currency stuffed ina false-bottomed com- .

partment of his suitcase: There is no law
against bringing currency into Venezuela,. so

that authorities could not even determine how

‘.much he had brought in. Ojeda later was cap-

tured, _ tried, and sentenced for guerrilla’ ac-

. tivity.

A ‘Nicaraguan exile, Julio Cesar Mayorga Porto

carrera, was ‘flying from Mexico to Honduras in

September, 1961, when weather forced the plane

to overfly Honduras and land in Nicaragua. He

was found to be carrying $3 ,600 in cash from |
Cuba for Nicaraguan rebels in Honduras.

Last March Ecuadorean troops raided a guerrilla

training camp in the nouritains west of Quito and

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“arrested some 48 members of the URJE- (Union of
Revolutionary Ecuadorean Youth): The ‘leaders ‘of

the group admitted having received guerrilla

training in Cuba, but there was’ no other evidence.

at the time of any Cuban involvement, The URJE;

however, was a Communist-front group whose leaders

had thrown off the discipline of the regular Com-

munist party, and. this January the Communists ‘man-

-aged to have a URJE convention, run by Young Con-

munis ts, expel the leaders. They were accused,

, (a regional Communist . leader in contact. with the.

- Cuban chargé in Chile, “and a _nonber of “the. PCE

"according to published accounts, of having wasted
$44, 000 supplied by | Cuba for guerrilla activities.

" One of our reliable sources in the Communist Party

“inquiry conmission)) has informed us that the

; next-to-last Cuban chargé in Quito blamed the

fiasco on the fact that his successor had passed —

‘the money ‘to the URJE without coordinating with

_ the vegulay® ‘Communist party.

A highly placed Guatemalan Communist who defected

- last November has given us a specific account of

procedures by which Cuba sent cash to Mexico to
buy weapons which were then smuggled into Guate-

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“Be We 2 also have considerable evidence ‘of ‘involved: -
bank ‘transfers by: which Cuban money eventually -
reaches Latin American ‘front groups to. pay for

“political and propaganda activity. In some
countries where ‘the Cubans still have diplomatic
‘missioxs, we have. obtained: photostats showing.
“that Cuban diplomats paid for printing of. front-
group. Propaganda»

OF, Just last. month, one of the first Brazilians ‘to.
' receive guerrilla warfare training ‘in 1961. was
"... pieked up-with a suitcase full of ammunition. he
was carrying: to some of those same guerrilla

“taining camps exposed when the Varig ‘plane
crashed in Peru,’ Interestingly enough, ‘the
"Brazilians believe ‘that ‘the money Cuba had been
. | providing. for ‘the camps actually came from Com-
“munist China, — ‘Since the — exposure of the varig,
- documents~-and probably since the guerrillas
first reached the Cuban embassy in Rio with
their complaints about mismanagement, confusion,

"and corruption--the Cubans have apparently

_ Stopped financing this. operation; but the evidence
“shows: it is ‘still: limping along. The man with’

"the suitcase full ‘of ammunition said that a woman

attorney. in Rio had given him the money’ to" ‘buy ‘a
large hacienda as a new guerrilla camp. We know

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that this woman isa cut-out in the commanica~

tions between. the pro-Conimunist Peasant Leagues,

which have run the camps, and the Cuban embassy.

.The principle that guerrillas must be self- sus tain-

ing has obviously been applied to finances. as well.
"Communists have staged waves of bank robberies in

- Venezuela, Peru, and Argentina.

‘The most spectacular hold- -up was that of a bank

ina ‘Lima Suburb last year which net ted almost

"$100,000. . Some of the participants have peen .
caught ‘and are being tried in the mass trials .
of. more than 200 Communists just starting in
Peru, We know that the hold-up was carried out '
by a combination of guerrillas’ and ordinary
. criminals, who divided the loot fifty-fifty. _
| Some of ‘the share of the common criminals has

-been recovered, but the Corimunist half ‘is. be-"

lieved to have reached the sizeable guerrilla

forces of Hugo, Blanco in the ‘Cuzco valley.

Just last week a bank in an outlying Venezuelan

doin was robbed of $25, 000 by’ men wearing FALN

armbands.

- Argentine police last July. raided a Buenos Aires

warehouse and: found evidence that. it had been

the headquarters for. a gang of ‘terrorists--ap-

; parently working: with both the Peronists and the

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Communis ts--responsible for a wave of ‘hold-ups,
burglaries, and attacks on police posts designed

to obtain funds, weapons, and explosives.

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